Board Thread:Pokémon Help/@comment-32211283-20171117043427/@comment-32358261-20171118063034

Alolan raichu needs electric terrain support to be good. It sits at a good speed tier so give it electric terrain. Then psychic, thunderbolt/volt switch. The thing is hp ice is almost a must. I think having rain dance too isn’t the best as it limits you to 2 other moves. You can use both pelliper and Alola raichu since you can give it thunder to take advantage of rain. Overall pelliper is the superior rain setter as it’s up immediately wephen set in compared to Alolan raichu which needs to sacrifice a move slot.

Steelix is a downgrade from lucario as despite its great defence. It attack is low, special defence is ok without a mega. Don’t waste a mega slot on it as like I said 2 is enough. I think aegislash is the better option. Yes gimmicky and predictable but it works wonders.

It’s your choice to keep sceptile but it’s special movepool is limited and physical attack is too low to be useful. Mega sceptile is better but it still means giving up a megaslot. You may have put a lot of work into it and I know it’s sad to see it go to waste but it’s gonna be hard to find much usage from it apart from a noob or something.

So how about this

Pelliper (rain setter), mega swampert (rain sweeper), mega gardevior (special sweeper), blaziken (speed boost), sceptile (its hard to use well) and aegislash (mixed tank).